Question

This character’s sister is burned with cigarettes after refusing to give away his location in Yaël ("yah-EL") Farber’s post-apartheid play Molora. The title group of another play threatens to poison the soil after this character exits the stage, having just encouraged a city to wield the “spear of victory” against its enemies. In a 20th-century play, while women carry funeral urns to a statue of Zeus, this character introduces himself under the alias (15[1])Philebus. This character devises a blood (*) tribute to Zeus in a play in which he interprets himself as a snake in his mother’s dream. Athena renames the (10[1])Furies after she casts the tie-breaking vote at this character’s trial for (10[2])murdering his mother, Clytemnestra. For 10 points, name this son of Agamemnon, the namesake of a trilogy of Greek tragedies by Aeschylus. ■END■

ANSWER: Orestes [accept Oresteia]
<Felix Wang, European Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Yashwanth BajjiMichigan APittsburgh7115
Rohan Navaneetha RajOhio State COhio State A9910
Daniel LianMichigan BMichigan State11110
Jack LengaCarnegie MellonOhio State B11110

Summary

2024 Penn Bowl UNC10/26/2024Y3100%0%33%117.67
2024 Penn Bowl Florida10/26/2024Y2100%0%0%109.00
2024 Penn Bowl Harvard10/26/2024Y4100%25%0%93.00
2024 Penn Bowl UK10/26/2024Y5100%0%40%116.00
2024 Penn Bowl Berkeley11/02/2024Y2100%0%50%109.50
2024 Penn Bowl Mainsite11/02/2024Y3100%0%33%111.33
2024 Penn Bowl CWRU11/02/2024Y4100%25%0%98.00
2024 Penn Bowl Chicago11/02/2024Y8100%13%0%96.63
2024 Penn Bowl Texas11/02/2024Y2100%0%0%103.50